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FW: RE: coureurs de bois/a better explanation of "Saccaje chien"



late contribution to this question...we ran it by our French Dept faculty.

-----Original Message-----
From: Reyes, Veronica
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 9:18 AM
To: Travers, Bonnie
Subject: FW: RE: coureurs de bois/a better explanation of "Saccaje
chien"

See Below.

-----Original Message-----
From: rjm@email.arizona.edu [mailto:rjm@email.arizona.edu]
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 8:18 AM
To: reyesv@u.library.arizona.edu
Subject: FW: RE: coureurs de bois


Hi Vernonica,

I got an answer to your question that is different than the one I first
suggested
and much more authorative, coming from a Canadian scholar, Robert Vezina,
who really knows the language of the fur traders. "Saccaje chien" is a
deformation
of "sacredieu de chien", which means something like "damned dog", even
though
"sacredieu" veut dire "Holy God!"

So "saccaje", contrary to appearances, has nothing to to with the verb
"saccager".

The spelling "saccaje" is a transcription of popular Canadian pronunciation
such as "sakedjeu d'chien".

cheers,

Reg

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